Yvonne Tasker
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Aging action
Hi Matt- action is not that different from other genres in this way. I could think of so many examples of stars like Lancaster and Eastwood who have/had aged but continued in action and adventure roles. There does seem to be a shift when it comes to fem ... -
Graceful aging
Drew, you're right that in some ways Stallone is an exceptional figure- a lot of the coverage around his recent movies has been to do with how remarkable it is that he has kept the built body and so on. Some commentators see that as a refusal to age ... -
Makeover culture?
Hi Matt- really interesting post: I guess that star bodies change over a career like voices and fashions. You're right that this body defines Stallone's stardom from the 1980s and that its meaning changes over the decades. The action genre chan ... -
Re: Action Tones
Irony and action
Seems like there is a tension you're both pointing to between action that is played "straight" and the more playful forms that we have gotten used to. There is definitely no irony or playfulness to be found in the latest Rambo movie- but a ... -
European action
Hi Mark- this also made me think about European action and its exchanges with Hollywood. The Italian westerns are examples I know well, but there have been many more recent examples of European action which get remade (Nikita) or which play in the US. I ...